From Publishers Weekly
Kushner, a Long Island University professor of Criminal Justice and Security Administration and a federal government counter terrorism adviser, blames the Clinton administration, the "liberal media" and political correctness for creating what he sees as a climate that fostered a vast, "secret Islamic network" of Muslim terrorists operating within American borders. In finger-pointing, accusatory prose, Kushner attacks Clinton, the ACLU and anyone else with PC leanings for allowing Islamic terrorist operations to gain a foothold on these shores, primarily through universities, mosques, Muslim charities and the prison system. Kushner singles out Democrats and liberals for blame, and praises President Bush and Republicans, even though he contends the secret terror network continues to operate today. The fault lies squarely, he says, with liberals of all stripes who speak out against such anti-terrorism tactics as the Patriot Act and law enforcement's use of racial profiling. "The only explanation as to why we continue to ignore the secret Islamic terror network in America is that the demands of political correctness have made us so afraid of being branded racists that we force ourselves to be color blind, identity blind and gender blind till we end up, quite simply, totally blind," Kushner says. Aside from its author's overt partisanship, this short book's other main failing is that it appears that the authors did nearly all of their research on the Internet. Virtually all of the endnotes cite Web sites. While there is a large amount of well-documented, credible information on the World Wide Web, the net is also the home of a vast amount of misinformation, unverifiable information, myth and propaganda, and some may find Kushner's sources to be poor basis for such strong claims. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
New York Post
Kushner has performed a useful task in reducing a mass of extraordinarily complex data to easily comprehensible form.
Cal Thomas
One of the most compelling and urgently needed books I have read on terrorism in America.
Book Description
Nearly three years after 9/11, the war on terror is far from over. In fact, a leading terrorism expert argues that despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, we’re not really any safer at all. Harvey Kushner, a respected adviser to the FBI, the FAA, the INS, and other government agencies, offers frightening new evidence of a unified Islamic terrorist network that is operating inside the United States and planning new opportunities to strike. Kushner identifies and assesses the violent plans of these Islamic organizations and individuals who take advantage of our reluctance to engage in ethnic profiling. He supports his claims with never-before-seen documents from top-level government sources, exposing a secret network of Arab intelligence agencies, terrorists, university professors, corrupt imams and other religious leaders, and violent criminals. Some members of this network are recent immigrants; others have been American citizens for years. Some are laundering money from abroad through seemingly innocuous charities and mosques. Some have even infiltrated our military as Arabic translators and Muslim chaplains. Finding and stopping these conspiracies will require drastic changes in the way Americans think about terrorism. Kushner’s proposals will spark a lively but essential debate about homeland security, civil liberties, immigration, law enforcement, and our nation’s most basic values and ideals.
About the Author
Harvey Kushner is an internationally recognized authority on terrorism prevention and has been a consultant to the FBI, FAA, INS, and U.S. Customs Service. He appears regularly on Fox News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC and is routinely quoted by major national publications. He wrote the expert’s report in the civil litigation investigating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Bart Davis is the author of eleven books and has written and coproduced two feature films. A member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, he has worked with every branch of the armed services during his career.
Holy War on the Home Front FROM THE PUBLISHER
"In this book, Harvey Kushner reveals how these extremists constitute a fifth column - a highly organized underground army whose tentacles reach into our colleges and universities; recruit converts in mosques and prisons; and raise money through bogus Muslim charities and drug-running operations - in America. They are committed to the most violent goals of Islamic jihad and united by the belief that God wants them to destroy America completely." "While the federal government focuses on securing our borders and airports, it has virtually overlooked the challenge of rooting out the secret terror network already inside our borders. In fact, many of the most dangerous advocates of the holy war against America have been in the United States for decades - protected by organizations such as the ACLU, whose cry of "Ethnic profiling!" prevents entirely reasonable law-enforcement measures." Kushner's inside sources have supplied new evidence that federal agencies routinely allow suspected - and known - terrorists to slip through the cracks because they won't communicate with one another or because political correctness takes priority over counterterrorism efforts.
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